Pregrant women on maternity leaveMaternity Leave Full Pay for 20 Weeks. Business and taxpayers face £2bn bill under Brussels plans to give new mothers 20 weeks leave on FULL pay. If the big boss Brussels wants us to do then we will do this plan soon and it will cost £2bn to taxpayers and Business. The UK Government opposes the Pregnant Workers Directive, but Labour’s socialist EU allies backed it.

The plan would effectively treble statutory pay in the UK, which currently provides women with six weeks at 90 per cent of salary, followed by a longer period on a basic £123 a week.

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